Smart City Digital Twin Convergence Conference

世界各地的城市正在越来越多地整合社会技术进步，以将其城市系统转变为智能城市。随着世界继续城市化，需要融合城市系统的科学、工程和政策，以确保这种变革性的发展实际上创造了造福于公民和整个社会的可持续城市系统。这需要：(1)汇聚来自城市利益相关者的各种相关学术学科和从业者的专业知识；(2)在人-基础设施界面汇聚网络使能的技术系统，创建一个可被称为智慧城市数字孪生的新系统。本次智慧城市数字双胞胎融合大会旨在促进对智慧城市数字双胞胎的理解、开发和应用，旨在汇聚来自美国大城市地区的学术界、工业界、市政当局和非营利组织的专家，为通过智慧城市数字双胞胎提供更智能的服务开发一个融合的社会技术框架。拟议中的智慧城市数字双胞胎融合大会也打算在这一新兴的调查领域创建一个思想领袖社区。这次融合会议将探讨在基础设施系统、人类系统和技术系统的交叉点上发生的基础研究。智慧城市数字双胞胎代表着改变城市运营和管理的新的关键基础设施。随着佐治亚理工学院、斯坦福大学、哥伦比亚大学和伊利诺伊大学(芝加哥)正在开发能源、建筑环境、水和交通领域的新兴试验床，关于单一基础设施要求的现有知识将被分享。这种知识共享将提供有关多基础设施相互依赖的基本见解，以及如何使用物联网(IoT)等支持网络基础设施的技术来感知、分析、控制和可视化人与基础设施之间的交互。通过让跨学科的学术专家、行业从业者和政府官员参与研讨会式的讨论，将创造新的知识，以(1)开发一个框架来比较智慧城市数字双胞胎努力及其演变阶段，以及(2)绘制未来智慧城市数字双胞胎努力的路线图，以促进城市的可持续性、复原力和社会福祉。综上所述，随着智慧城市数字双胞胎这一新学科的出现，这些融合会议活动将提供一股关键的凝聚力量。智慧城市数字孪生计划有可能改变城市的宜居性、可持续性和弹性，为各种规模的公司创造新的商业机会，社区公民参与的新形式，教育实践的创新形式，以及政府运营和管理的新方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cities around the world are increasingly integrating socio-technical advancements to transform their urban systems toward smart cities. As the world continues to urbanize, convergent science, engineering and policy for urban systems is needed to ensure such transformative developments are, in fact, creating sustainable urban systems that benefit the citizens and societies at large. This requires both: (1) convergence of a variety of involved academic disciplines and practitioner expertise from city stakeholders; and (2) convergence of cyber-enabled technology systems at the human-infrastructure interface, creating a new system that can be referred to as a Smart City Digital Twin. With a vision of advancing understanding, development, and application of Smart City Digital Twins, this Smart City Digital Twin Convergence Conference aims to bring together experts from academia, industry, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations from large metropolitan areas in the United States to develop a convergent socio-technological framework for delivering smarter services through Smart City Digital Twins. The proposed Convergence Conference on Smart City Digital Twins also intends to create a community of thought leaders in this emerging area of inquiry. This convergence conference will explore basic research occurring at the intersection of infrastructure systems, human systems, and technology systems. Smart City Digital Twins represent a new critical infrastructure transforming city operations and management. Existing knowledge on the requirements for single infrastructure Smart City Digital Twins will be shared as emerging testbeds in the areas of energy, built environment, water, and transportation are under development at Georgia Tech, Stanford University, Columbia University and the University of Illinois (Chicago). This sharing of knowledge will provide fundamental insights on multi-infrastructure interdependencies, as well as how human- infrastructure interactions can be sensed, analyzed, controlled, and visualized using cyber-infrastructure enabled technology such as Internet of Things (IoT). New knowledge will be created by engagement of interdisciplinary academic experts, industry practitioners, and government officials in workshop-style facilitated discussions to (1) develop a framework for comparing Smart City Digital Twin efforts and their stages of evolution and (2) chart a roadmap for future Smart City Digital Twin efforts that advance urban sustainability, resilience, and social well-being. Taken together, these convergence conference activities will provide a critical coalescing force as the new discipline of Smart City Digital Twins emerges. Smart City Digital Twinning efforts have the potential to transform the livability, sustainability, and resilience of cities, creating new business opportunities for companies of all sizes, new forms of citizen engagement by communities, creative forms of pedagogical practices, and new approaches to city operations and management by governments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.